Whenever I have a booting problem with any Linux or Unix system, the first thing I do is to boot up in single user mode. This way you eliminate network, and other configurational issues. Single user mode is the most minimal mode you can boot into. The next step is to boot into multi-user mode with no network (2). You can do this from single user mode by typing /sbin/telinit 2. In any case, debugging boot problems is not fun. On 1 Oct 2002 at 9:52, jaakko tamminen wrote:
Hi
If You are still stuck in runlevel 3, try to disable the com-ports from BIOS, that should allow Linux to go past the "configuring serial devices", thus letting You check what can cause this problem.
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Jerry Feldman